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<span class=large>ECCLESIASTES</span><br/> OR, THE PREACHER
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CHAPTER 4
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Oppression and evil work are vanity—The strength of two is better than one—Better is a poor and wise child than an old and foolish king.
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So</span> I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of <i>such as were</i> oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors <i>there was</i> power; but they had no comforter.
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Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
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Yea, better <i>is he</i> than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
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&#182; Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/4/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 26: 14.">envied</a> of his neighbour.  This <i>is</i> also vanity and <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/4/4b" mark="b" type="A" title="Eccl. 1: 14.">vexation</a> of spirit.
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The <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/4/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 9: 28.">fool</a> foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
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Better <i>is</i> an <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/4/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 15: 16.">handful</a> <i>with</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/4/6b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Silence.">quietness</a>, than both the hands full <i>with </i>travail and vexation of spirit.
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&#182; Then I returned, and I saw <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/4/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Vanity.">vanity</a> under the sun.
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There is one <i>alone,</i> and <i>there is</i> not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet <i>is there</i> no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither <i>saith he,</i> For whom do I labour, and <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/4/8a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR deprive myself.">bereave</a> my soul of good?  This <i>is</i> also vanity, yea, it <i>is</i> a <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/4/8b" mark="b" type="A" title="Eccl. 1: 13.">sore</a> travail.
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&#182; <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/4/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Moses 3: 24.">Two</a> <i>are</i> better than one; because they have a good <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/4/9b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Reward.">reward</a> for their labour.
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For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him <i>that is</i> alone when he falleth; for <i>he hath</i> not another to help him up.
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Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm <i>alone?</i>
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And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
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&#182; Better <i>is</i> a <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/4/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="3 Ne. 12: 3.">poor</a> and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/4/13b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Teachable; TG Warnings.">admonished</a>.
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For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also <i>he that is</i> born in his kingdom becometh poor.
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I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.
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<i>There is</i> no end of all the people, <i>even</i> of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him.  Surely this also <i>is</i> vanity and vexation of spirit.
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